1st Edition
Continual Permutations of Action Communication and Social Order
By Anselm L. Strauss
Copyright 1993
280 Pages
by
Routledge
Richard Bernstein expressed the view that pragmatism was ahead of its time; the same has been true of symbolic interactionism. These two closely related perspectives, one philosophical and the other sociological, place human action at the center of their explanatory schemes. It has not mattered what aspect of social or psychological behavior was under scrutiny. Whether selves, minds, or emotions,... Read more
Acknowledgements, Foreword by David R. Maines, Introduction, Part I, Part II, References, Index
Biography
Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996) was professor of sociology and chair of the Depart-ment of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. His many books include Creating Sociological Awareness, Images of the American City, and Professions, Work, and Careers all available from Transaction. David R. Maines is professor and chair of sociology and anthropology at Oakland University. He was one of the founding members of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and has been a recipient of the SSSI George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions to scholarship.
